The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPERWilliam Cowper Quotes
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPER
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPER
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPER
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPER
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER
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Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPER
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPER
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPER